Before its presentation at The Frick Collection for the exhibition, van Gogh's Portrait of a Peasant (Patience Escalier) traveled from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where it was examined by a team of painting...s conservators. The results of this close look at the painting and the details it revealed about the artist's technique are presented in this video. (08:55)[more]

What gives this star-filled night its haunting power? A doomed painter's madness or a carefully planned strategy? Both possibilities are discussed, and inspirations for aspects of the painting are described. A thorough analysis of artists' interests ...in sky is given. ( Minutes five and eight contain material not appropriate for younger students.) ( 12:12)[more]

Van Gogh was born in 1853 in Groot—Zundert, a small village in the southern Netherlands near the Belgian border. The oldest son of a Protestant minister, young van Gogh was moody, quiet, introverted, but he grew up with a love of nature and the arts.... Van Gogh attended school as a young boy, but at the age of sixteen he left home for the Hague to work as an apprentice to an uncle, a dealer at Goupil and Co., an international art firm. Van Gogh subsequently worked for the firm in London and Paris; he admired the Dutch masters but was particularly influenced by French Realist painters, Camille Corot and Jean-Francois Millet. (03:19)[more]

In this video, students will learn about the paintings ofvVan Gogh and the music of Sebastian Bach. Slides of van Gogh's paintings move across screen as Bach's music is played in background. This is a good teaching resource to integrate the arts into... the classroom. It is well done and elementary and middle school students will enjoy this video.[more]

This video is a great teaching resource for upper middle school/high school students and would work well in conjunction with an introductory lesson on Art Appreciation and/or Vincent Van Gogh. As the song plays that talks of Vincent's life, the Starr...y Night stars twinkle. The animated painting using Sqirlz software is set to music by Don McLean. (4:35)[more]

Initially, it seemed like a good idea for Paul Gauguin to paint with Vincent van Gogh (in October of 1888). His working visit, however, lasted just two months.
In this clip, from the award-winning film Lust for Life, Kirk Douglas (as Vincent) and... Anthony Quinn (as Gauguin) recreate scenes of the artists in Arles.[more]

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